There’s a lot of interesting information in these links, but yes, of course the #Content highlights the Evaders player torturing the YouTuber.
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Driveline Baseball: Everyone painted the Dodgers’ decision and Dave Roberts allow Yoshinobu Yamamoto to pitch in Game 7 of the World Series with zero days of rest seems like a huge health risk… but was that really the case?
It turns out that adding an additional, one-time effort of 32 workload units during what would normally be a bad day doesn’t pose much risk.
If Yamamoto had done that once during a regular season and then continued his normal routine, he wouldn’t have pushed his ACWR above our 20% redline, as we can see in the chart above.
In other words, what Yamamoto did in Game 7 wasn’t inherently dangerous. He had built up the capacity for such additional emergency work.
To cross a redline, to increase his ACWR by more than 20%, he would have to reach 50 workload units in Game 7. In other words, he would have to throw a workload of a full game day, more than 100 pitches, on consecutive days.
Actually, you should read the whole thing.
But what Yamamoto’s performance in the World Series may have taught him is that managers can put their best foot forward when they need to. They don’t always have to be so conservative. Pitchers can be built for such a moment. They can prepare by being overprepared and seeing benefits such as better quality of things.
Managers may need to be more willing to let pitchers take on an even greater workload in the postseason and in the pursuit of regular-season history — those no-hitters bids. According to the data, it’s quite safe, and that would be the much nicer option.
While it clearly requires making a lot of assumptions in this specific case – and therefore should be given space to teams that actually have data for these types of decisions – it is certainly useful in a general sense.
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Baseball prospectus: Wanted more record predictions? Well, PECOTA has the Dodgers pegged at a whopping 104.3 wins with a 99.9% chance of making the playoffs, a 98.1% chance of winning the division, and a 23% chance of winning the World Series. Seems good.
Baseball prospectus: Were you hopeful about the Jack Suwinski to retrieve? Well, maybe you shouldn’t.
Suwinski has a career strikeout rate of 31%, which has led to DRC+s outside of ’23 not even reaching 90 yet. It’s not pure passivity either: his walk rates are strong, and he essentially stopped swinging last year (less than 40% zone swing rate), but he also whiffs too much in-zone, and especially out-of-zone (44% O-Con compared to 55% league average) when he chooses to take a hack. Suwinski is already a lift-and-pull type, so no such solution is available, meaning he needs something closer to a swing overhaul. Those can work, but they generally take time, and given the way the Dodgers have cycled through 40-man spots this offseason (just ask Mike Siani), it’s not clear how much of that Suwinski will have with the organization.
Of course, if a turnaround wasn’t unlikely, he wouldn’t be available for a reason, but I think the point is more that the path to usefulness in his case isn’t one pen session of teaching him a new grip, as it was for others who helped the Dodgers (Anthony Banda).
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FanGraph: Another week, another Top 100 list, and they have four Dodgers on their list: José de Paula at #17, Zyhir Hope at #41, Eduardo Quintero at #43, and Emil Morales at #61. Also there is River Ryan at #107 in their next 10. A bit lower for the Downstream guys than other places, but nothing surprising, IMO.
FanGraph: For a different feel, ZiPS is always an interesting Top 100 list just because it is based solely on numbers. The Dodgers end up landing five: Morales at #17 (wow), Quintero at #41, Alex Vrijland and #43, De Paula and #80, and Jackson Ferris at #95. In addition, the Dodgers add three more in the Top 200 (8 total) and 17 more in the Top 500 (22 total). Of those listed later, Hope is the only one whose ranking we know at number 151.
Baseball America: Beyond their Top 30 prospects, they’ve put together quick recaps of 10 other tidbits for the Dodgers: Ryan WardAdrian Marrero, Brady Smith, Justin Chambers, Paul Gervaas, Jacob Wright, Rubel Arias, Ezequiel in Melbourne, Reyli MarianoAnd Jaron Elkins.
Baseball America: Oliver González and Marrero are listed among the candidates they are excited about making their debut in the United States.
When he signed, Gonzalez’s fastball was in the upper 80s, but the 6-foot-2 righthander was in the low 90s in 2025, hitting 90 mph with significant extension and a descent.
However, he only played a low-80s curveball in games last year [Gonzalez] also worked on a change and slider. The Panama native, who will be with the ACL Dodgers in 2026, also has a chance to be a pioneer for the country, which has yet to build a consistent line of homegrown pitching talent.
He works with a five-pitch mix preceded by a ’90s sinker [Marrero] landed strikes 67.5% of the time, but his calling card is a high-spin curveball that averaged over 3,100 rpm and generated a 54% miss rate. It could become a real bat-missing weapon to build around. His 1970s sweeper also hits 3,000 rpm spin, along with an astonishing 2-foot horizontal break, but assembling that field is a work in progress, and he’s still developing his switch and two-seam.
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Let’s close with a YouTuber going through it Brusdar Graterol‘s grueling workout, resulting in a video that included vomiting, “he’s dying” and “you’re going to shit.” It also features a great motivational speech from Bazooka as he basically tortures the man. Good stuff.
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